Robert Henke

Robert Henke began his public service career with the State of Indiana in 2007, working with the Indiana Department of Child services (DCS). While at DCS, Robert first served as trial counsel and then as deputy general counsel over trials and appeals. When the DCS appeals section was moved to the Indiana Office of the…

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Rontear Pendleton

Rontear Pendleton is currently the Deputy Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Prior to returning the Office Ms. Pendleton was the General Counsel at the Department of Labor Standard (DLS) where she served as the Chief Legal Advisor for the agency. Before transitioning to DLS she was the Grand Jury Director and an…

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Melissa Wright

Melissa Wright is an Assistant Attorney General and the Section Chief of the Consumer Protection Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. In this role, Melissa provides legal advice and assistance with all matters involving the section and with Ohio’s consumer protection laws, including related bankruptcy and multistate matters. Melissa obtained her Bachelor of Arts…

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Monica N. Anderson

Monica N. Anderson is the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Correctional Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office, which litigates civil rights actions challenging the constitutionality of prison conditions. Ms. Anderson currently supervises over 100 attorneys and 20 paralegals throughout the state of California. Through litigation of class action cases, Ms. Anderson has…

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Melodie M. Mabanta

Melodie M. Mabanta is barred in Maryland and the District of Columbia, though currently on inactive status in D.C given that she practices exclusively in Maryland as an Assistant Attorney General. She has been a litigator for over twenty years. In private practice, she litigated complex cases in Maryland’s state and federal courts and in…

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Michael S. Rubin

Michael Rubin is an Assistant General Counsel in NJ Transit’s Office of the General Counsel, representing the third largest public transportation agency in the United States in a wide variety of practice areas. Prior to this, he practiced civil law and commercial litigation for nearly twenty-five years in New Jersey’s Attorney General’s Office. He also…

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Marc Abrams

Marc Abrams is Assistant Attorney in Charge of the Civil Litigation Section of the Oregon Department of Justice, where he is lead attorney for employment litigation. He joined ODOJ in 2002 after a decade in firms in New York, Philadelphia and Portland, and a decade in sole practice and as a pro tem judge handling…

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Margaret A. Cotoia

Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Cotoia is the Director of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, which provides continuing legal education programs that meet the practice needs of New Jersey government lawyers. Margaret maintains overall responsibility for over 150 programs a year, recruiting instructors and developing curriculum for the AGAI’s lecture programs, supervising litigation…

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Mary L. Lucasse

Mary Lucasse has been a Special Deputy Attorney General in the Environmental Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice (“NCDOJ”) since 2009. Prior to joining the NCDOJ, she had extensive complex civil litigation experience working for the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (from 1986 – 1991) and in private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii…

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Kimberly S. Cammarata

Kimberly S. Cammarata is a Senior Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and has served as the Director of the Consumer Protection Division’s Health Education and Advocacy Unit since 2010. She is responsible for the direction and management of the Health Education and Advocacy Unit’s consumer mediation services and health…

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